Bill Text: TX HB4149 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to county jailers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-25 - Placed on intent calendar [HB4149 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB4149-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to county jailers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-25 - Placed on intent calendar [HB4149 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB4149-Introduced.html
By: Coleman | H.B. No. 4149 |
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relating to county jailers. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 1701.310, Occupations Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 1701.310. APPOINTMENT OF COUNTY JAILER; TRAINING | ||
REQUIRED. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (e), a person may | ||
not be appointed as a county jailer, except on a temporary basis, | ||
unless the person has satisfactorily completed a preparatory | ||
training program, as required by the commission, in the operation | ||
of a county jail at a school operated or licensed by the commission. | ||
The training program must consist of at least eight hours of mental | ||
health training approved by the commission and the Commission on | ||
Jail Standards. | ||
(b) A county jailer appointed on a temporary basis who does | ||
not satisfactorily complete the preparatory training program | ||
before the first anniversary of the date that the person is | ||
appointed shall be removed from the position. A county jailer | ||
appointed on a temporary basis shall be enrolled in the preparatory | ||
training program on or before the 90th day after their temporary | ||
appointment. A temporary appointment may not be renewed. | ||
(c) A county jailer serving under permanent appointment | ||
before September 1, 1979, regardless of whether the person's | ||
employment was terminated before that date because of failure to | ||
satisfy standards adopted under Chapter 511, Government Code, is | ||
not required to meet a requirement of this section as a condition of | ||
continued employment or promotion unless: | ||
(1) in an attempt to meet the standards the person took an | ||
examination and failed or was not allowed to finish the examination | ||
because the person acted dishonestly in regard to the examination; | ||
(2) the person forged a document purporting to show that the | ||
person meets the standards; or | ||
(3) the person seeks a new appointment as a county jailer on | ||
or after September 1, 1984. | ||
(d) A county jailer serving under permanent appointment | ||
before September 1, 1979, is eligible to attend training courses in | ||
the operation of a county jail, subject to commission rules. | ||
(e) A person trained and certified by the Texas Department | ||
of Criminal Justice to serve as a corrections officer in that | ||
agency's correctional institutions division is not required to | ||
complete the training requirements of this section to be appointed | ||
a part-time county jailer. Examinations under Section 1701.304 and | ||
psychological examinations under Section 1701.306 apply. | ||
(f) A county jailer appointed on a temporary basis may not | ||
be promoted to a supervisory position in a county jail. | ||
(g) The commission and the Commission on Jail Standards may | ||
develop additional training for county jailers serving under | ||
permanent appointments to promote health and safety in county | ||
jails. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |